Graduate Division 



PRESIDENT RAYMOND A. PEARSON, Acting Dean 

 GENERAL STATEMENT 



The Iowa State ^College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts offers major 

 and minor work for the degree of Master of Science in the following sub- 

 jects with special application to the industries: agricultural education, ani- 

 mal husbandry, bacteriology, botany, chemistry, dairying, economics, engi- 

 neering, farm crops and soils, farm management, forestry, geology, horti- 

 culture, mathematics, physics, veterinary anatomy, veterinary pathology, 

 veterinary physiology, and zoology. Graduate instruction leading to the 

 degree of Doctor of Philosophy is also offered in agronomy, animal hus- 

 bandry, bacteriology, botany, chemistry, dairying, geology, horticulture, and 

 zoology. Additional minor supporting work is offered in other depart- 

 ments to supplement graduate study along technical lines. 



FACULTY 



The president, the deans, the heads of the departments in which grad- 

 uate instruction is authorized, and other members of the faculties who are 

 in immediate charge of graduate instruction are members of the Graduate 

 Faculty. 



ORGANIZATION 



The instruction and training of graduate students has been one of the 

 functions of the Iowa State College since its early history. The first de- 

 gree of Master of Science was conferred in 1877. In 1879 the first degree 

 of Civil Engineer and the first degree of Master of Philosophy were con- 

 ferred. In early years the department or departments in which the student 

 was registered mapped out the applicant's course and supervised his work. 

 Later, when the divisions of the College had been created, each division 

 controlled its own graduate work. It was not long, however, until the 

 number of graduate students and the diversified character of their work 

 demanded further organization, and a Graduate Committee was appointed 

 to supervise the work of all graduate students. This Committee was in 

 charge until 1913 when the increase in the graduate work made it neces- 

 sary to perfect still further the organization, and the Graduate Division 

 was established. The Graduate Division is administered by the President 

 of the College as Acting Dean and the Graduate Faculty. Under this 

 organization the graduate work to be pursued in any case is under the 

 Acting Dean, the head of the department, and the professor in charge of 

 the work. 



